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Five Points, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32055. The Survey maps it on the Lake City West quadrangle. 1,076 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Five Points within Columbia County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1954

Population over time

2 figures

Five Points fell from 1,265 to 1,076 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,265
20201,076-189 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 28 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning105
Railroad operations and maintenance88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Natural38
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service06-12-PILLSBURY FIRE-1242
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION AVE (12)
25 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaSTILL
25 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service06-12-JOEY LAND FIRE-1400
23 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMCCALL TERR (12)
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 1993Natural31 acresNational Forests in Floridanot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lacymark0.6 miles8
Lake City1.3 miles8
Miltons Campground Number 11.6 miles8
Watertown1.7 miles10
Halpata (historical)1.8 miles8
Newco2.6 miles10
Wilburn3.4 miles10
Navair3.9 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Five PointsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1421867The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282521. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.